This project has stretched my technology skills, and I am proud to say that I have accomplished posting an article to wikipedia. I researched how writing assessments are used in school systems across the United States and how feather circles, or writing circles, contribute to the success of these writing assessments. I learned different ways to research, like social bookmarking, using advanced search on google, and even searching through blog posts and organizations online. I learned how to use html text when my group posted the article to wikipedia. I learned how to site my sources with in the article and make a reference list. Also, I learned how to embed links inside the text of the article on wikipedia. I completely underestimated this project from the beginning. I did not think learning how to use wikipedia would be as difficult as it was, but after I learned how to write the article and site my sources, I feel that I want to contribute more beyond this project. I think that it is cool that anyone can contribute bits and pieces of our global history and more to one site. It is a place that we can all connect and relate to.
I feel that our group divided up and collaborated well together. We did have difficulty all getting together at the same time to work on the project, but when we subdivided into two groups and researched in pairs and wrote our part of the article in pairs and then got together to collaboratively post our information online, I feel that it was a collaborative effort even though we did split up the project some. Everyone had a job. I was the coordinator of the group meaning I emailed and updated everyone to how the project was coming along, and I also made the pages on our wikispace account. I also wrote the Progress Report for the group but we discussed what to put in the progress report in a group meeting. I worked with Kristie Kannaley on researching writing assessments in the classroom and what feather circles were, and we wrote our pre-entry and final entry posts together. Krisite and I also posted the final product to wikipedia. Haocheng Liao and Laurel Goldberg researched how feather circles are used in the classroom and different types of feather circles. They also worked together to write their pre-entry and post entry posts. Haocheng was in charge of doing the screenshots for the project, and Laurel was in charge of doing the process summary for the group.
